Chap. 694.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 47 of an act entitled an
act for opening and keeping in order the public roads and for building and
repairing bridges in the county of Accomac, approved March 2, 1892.

Approved March 6, 1894.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-seven of an act entitled an act for opening and keeping in
order the public roads and for building and repairing public bridges
in the county of Accomac, approved March second, eighteen hundred
and ninety-two, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 47. Levy by the board of supervisors.—The board of supervisors
shall at their annual meeting levy upon the assesged property of
each magisterial district an amount sufficient for working and drain-
ing the roads in that district and for building and repairing the
bridges of the same, in all cases where the probable expenditure will
not exceed twenty dollars, and shall levy upon the assessed property
of the county at large an amount sufficient for establishing or alter-
ing roads or landings, widening or straightening roads or building
or repairing bridges, where the probable expenditure will exceed
twenty dollars, but that the levy in both cases shall not exceed
twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of the assessed value in
any district, which levy is to be applied to no other purpose, and
shall be extended on the books of the commissioner of the revenue
by the designation of road tax.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.